Yelp Takes a Page from Twitter for iPhone App

iPhone-owning Yelpers know how invaluable the app can be when you're in a strange neighborhood and craving pad thai. The app makes it easy to find nearby restaurants and stores, and lets you surf user reviews to get a pretty good sense of whether the establishment is any good.

But while the Yelp app makes it easy for Yelpers to access reviews, Yelp reviews tend to be, shall we say, wordy? Not the best iPhone format, and more than once I've found myself reading an epic restaurant review explaining just why a particular pizza parlor was awarded 3 stars instead of 4. And after eating said 3-star pizza, the app wouldn't let me write my own review, so I'd have to wait until I got home.

A new update to the iPhone app solves both of those problems. iPhone users can now post reviews in the form of 140-character "Quick Tips"&#151;perfect for when you're in the moment and pissed off at your dry cleaner. If you want to write a longer review, you can now write the draft on your iPhone and post it when you get home to your PC.

I dig the 140-character idea, as restaurant and business reviews are much more useful to read and write when you're out of the house and away from your computer. Besides, our brains are already being trained to think and digest information in 140 characters, and how much more could there possibly be to write about pad thai? Look for the update to hit the App Store "within the next few days."

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